Snowflakes in Loveland support Newtown, Conn. (video)

The staff members of Studio Vino are doing their part to honor the families who lost children in Newtown, Conn., in December.

Community members spent time Thursday night cutting out paper snowflakes at the downtown business to show solidarity for the town of Newtown and the children who started back to a new school on Thursday.

Sara Turner, owner of Studio Vino, 426 N. Lincoln Ave., originally planned to send the snowflakes to Newtown as part of a national project to decorate the new school with thousands of white snowy flakes from all over the country.

That is, until a notice was posted on the Connecticut Parent Teacher Student Association website that states, "At this time, we have enough beautiful snowflakes to blanket the community of Newtown. Therefore, with regret we must close the snowflake project to further donations."

Aidan Jenkins shows off the snowflake he made in an event Thursday night at Studio Vino in Loveland. The snowflakes will be used in a window display to show solidarity for Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Money will also be donated to a scholarship being set up in honor of the children who died.
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Jessica Benes
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The organization encouraged communities to create their own winter wonderland and share photos with Newtown.

Turner re-evaluated Studio Vino's project and decided to create a huge window display of snowflakes at the venue to show support for the Sandy Hook school and children.

"We really as a Loveland community wanted to make sure we did something," Turner said.

A gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14.

She asked participants to donate $5, which she plans to submit to the scholarship being set up in honor of the children killed in the shooting.

About 30 adults and children cut triangles and circles from white pieces of paper and pages from old storybooks and decorated them with glitter glue and shapes.

Tracie Jenkins attended with her children and taught some of the others how to cut out cute snowflake shapes. She is a resident artist at Garfield Elementary School and has taught lessons on snowflake making before.

Cindy Albrecht and Grace Hansen cut out shapes and painted them with glitter at one of the long tables. The women said they read about the event in the newspaper.

"I thought it was a wonderful idea," Albrecht said. Hansen added, "I want them to know we all care. It touched all of us."

Turner said people are welcome to bring more snowflakes to the shop to help decorate the windows.

The Connecticut PTSA website listed other ways people can help.

Students can collect spare change to support their peers at Sandy Hook or do other fundraisers such as walkathons, spirit days, pajamas days and more.

Ruby Crowl, eight, Molly Moran, eight and Ellie Moran, six, cut out snowflakes at Studio Vino Thursday night to show their support of the community of Newtown, Conn. The snowflakes will be used in a window display as a public display of solidarity for the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school was involved in a shooting tragedy in December.
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Jessica Benes
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